Feel the softness between your fingers as you learn to paint realistic fur. Grab your favourite sketching tool and draw your furry subject. Alternately, grab a sketch from the internet, or turn a photo into a sketch with our useful tutorial! If you’re drawing, make sure you show body parts through the fur, but that the fur is fairly thick.

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create one of Alice in Wonderland fantasy the cat “Cheshire” with some easy and cool steps. Before getting started load/open your cat image. We need to get it reading for the eyes. Now once your image is loaded into Photoshop. We need to use the liquify tool and make a little minor but effective changes.

Do you love photo realistic digital art, but lack the time or skills to produce epic digital paintings? If you answered yes, then don’t go anyway, this is the tutorial for you. Simply avoiding learning digital painting is a real shame, as it can teach you a lot about design, art and Photoshop, and can really help you better your understanding of areas such as lighting and perspective.

Artist Therese Larsson explains how to paint light glowing through fur with Photoshop layers. When painting digital light in fur I try to take advantage of Photoshop's strong light layer styles. By switching between Soft Light, Hard Light or Overlay and seeing what works best, I can effectively achieve that particular kind of glowing light that appears when light is scattered through and between strands of hair.